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From the Preface: "In connection the the 'Contract Bridge Blue Book of 1933,' one paramount fact must be kept in mind by the reader: — However much the yearly edition of the Blue Book may be enlarged, modified and improved as a book, the Culbertson System remains, with the exception of natural refinements and additions, unchanged in its principl... more »es and essential methods. ...The principles that were true in 1923 must necessarily be true in 1933, and will be true in 1943."

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The rules of Contract Bridge haven't changed much or at all over the years. This is the quintessential rules book that everyone's grandparents or in some cases great-grandparents used when they met every weekend for Bridge. From the date and the number of translations cited this is probably the same book that Omar Sharif used to become the Champion Bridge player he was.